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563 · Feb 2012
Human Friends
Brycical Feb 2012
I often forget
                     my friends are human.

I hold them in high regard,
like a jar of gems in the sun.

As the years circulate,
they have talked me down
from tearing my brain out

unlike my family

they're honest,
not afraid to tell me anything
even if it hurts.
Like that time I was dating that girl
and everyone called her a ****** hell-*****.

I only carry the secrets
they've asked me to in my pockets.

My family encourages me to make money.
My friends tell me to do whatever makes me content.

                       So sometimes my gratitude
                       transforms
                       these humans into deities
                       that do no wrong.

             I'm shocked
             at their careless decisions
                 disgusted
               by their occasional irrationality.
                      How dare they soil the image I've created in my brain
                      to which I then project unto them!

                                      The world disappoints me
                                      as a whole--
                                      but that's expected.

My brain & heart fissure
when my friends
don't act like these people I worship.
Until I remember the keyword
is "people."
They're human, just like me.
552 · Dec 2012
Definitions; Self
Brycical Dec 2012
Fluctuating; evolving.
Read more poems from the Definitions series

Here's Perception;
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/235368/definitions-perception/


Here's Expectations;
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/283749/definitions-expectations/
551 · Jan 2012
Your Company
Brycical Jan 2012
I've never thought anyone should be alone,
      it's like "a demon tied--"
                well, you get the idea.
But I've found friends have a knack
for leaving without saying goodbye.
    Normally I don't give a ****...

But something inside,
a little, seldom heard shadow voice
spoke
loudly--
suggesting I traverse to the top of the turquoise mountain
where your plexi/stained-glass-glow-in-the-dark shelter sits.
I know I shouldn't,
                but this voice seems convinced
                I should make some sort of
                exception for you.
                I think it knows something I don't....


The energy you radiate
whispers you're alive.
And I write,
      and I write--
mostly psychobabble graffiti
all over your protective bubble.  
       It's supposed to be a playful gesture,
I'm thinking about you!
I don't know if I can stop--
thinking
or writing...
I think it's a distraction
to ignore my fears...
And I write,
      and I write--

But the darkest
within me rustles
in blind, mute nightfall.
I can hear it breathing,
claws scratching the rock on the mountain...

              I await for the knock on your side
              telling me to stop,
              but I think realization
              has set in for both of us...

                                           you're head will explode
                                           regardless,
                                           but, at least this time,
                                 we can say goodbye.
545 · Oct 2014
Untitled
Brycical Oct 2014
Truth is fluid, like molten lava,
it can be forged into many things.
Like truth,
I cannot be contained
in a single definition
of ***, diet, address, culture, occupation, income, hobby, brands, religion, genetics, being,  path, journey, source...

Everyday is potential chaos
waiting for us to caress
the stargate flower folds of time
until it's dripping, throbbing,
electrified enough
for us to twist our fingers inside
as it moans in deja vu serendipity.

Everyday I am a new person
born from subconscious dreams.
There is potential for me to undo everything
in my life by a simple choice of deciding
to eat a sourkraut and mayonnaise sandwich
with salmon roe despite the fact I dislike all of those things.
Or I could put my head in an oven.
I could get hit by a bus.
I could save someone from choking.
Maybe the best **** of my life awaits tomorrow!
  
Everyday has potential,
though some days I waste it.
Sometimes I wallow in dark steaming ***** pits
of self despair berating myself for something dumb
like not being happy enough.
Then other days it feels like
I could ****** a dragon into my bed.

Either way, I am allowing these moments to flow freely
as I swim unabashed in their currents.

I cannot be contained
because I am a living being,
every part of me is moving
atoms that make up my skin cells
to the blood cells
to my breath
to my blinking eyes
to my mind
to time
to this large blue planet hurling through space!

By the time you try and define me
I've already disappeared
into the deep flow of time and space.
So catch up if you dare.
Anyone have any ideas for a title?
Brycical Nov 2011
We open
our--brains &
the echo--
of       the         stars
reverberate       into
      our      visionary
           psyche.
540 · Feb 2012
meditation (inspiration)
Brycical Feb 2012
Shapes coalesce
        in the liquid
   effervescently
iridescent upon contact
        with air.

As a drink,
      so shall the mind flower
   lotus glow--
growing
       green/yellow
           spindle
feeding my subconscious
pleasant portraits
          painted atop
     Chrysocolla blocks.
539 · Feb 2012
Earth Mantra
Brycical Feb 2012
Keep me grounded.

Keep me strong.


Listen to the rhythm of the Mother’s^ song.


Muscles are stone.

Skin is dirt.


Fauna rustles dancing leaves in concert.


Animals roam.

Feel their lives.


Through mind’s eye, let them be your guide.
^Mother Earth.
538 · Jun 2013
today we rest
Brycical Jun 2013
colors fade and
words soften
bones tire the night
after a party....

the pleasure of shaking hands
seeing familiar faces and
meeting new smiles
dulls...

all the beer evaporates in our liver
all the hash drifts out our brain
entropy sets in
like jack and jill after rolling down the hill...

the vibration of the all-night music
is but a tingle in the back of the ears
as yesterday seems like a fading echo....
537 · Dec 2014
Current Timeline
Brycical Dec 2014
I am a 27 year old misfit artist diving deeper into a profound, glistening amethyst molten ocean of love with a soul older than mine yet struggling to allow love in my heart for lazy, apathetic family afraid to rock the boat  yet wallows and wades in frigid desert dunes of dried ice where water no longer exists.

I am thirteen years old and encouraged to read a poem I wrote in front of the class by my English teacher, my heart glows as a new buzzing azure jazz saxophone sound emerges in my mind as this is the first time any educator has encouraged me.

I am two or three years old running around this humongous place called apartment while my dad is chasing me with this giant eye that captures movement and sound on tapes and I'm having trouble seeing the rest of his hairy face.

I am twenty-five and holding my best friend as that rich radiant  poetic tragicomedic light fades away from his irises for several seconds of lifetimes while the seizure scrambles and mangles and tangles his mind until he suddenly blinks yet cannot think of my name.

I am twelve and at four in the morning suddenly develop this tingling vibration in my pants after I stopped flipping channels on my grandparents cable television as it landed on this inappropriate movie about a lady with huge ******* giving this guy a blowie.

I am eight or nine and scared, some six or seven kids from third grade are hitting me, kicking me, dragging me while teachers watch for a few then turn away and I feel so powerless when they spit on me and hurl my body against the tree.

I am eighteen and ready to tackle the world after graduating high school and performing two different parts in the musical after replacing a guy and taking 'the girl' to prom after she chose me and not the other guy I had to replace only to find myself dating her and another at the same time! Oh what folly and foolish revelry is this!?

I am all of these,
embracing the choices
and voices and being
knowing every breath and heartbeat
every fluttering eye and handshake
and kiss has catapulted, imploded
and cuckoo capitulated and molten molded me
into the being I am right now!
inspired from a scene in the movie Mr. Nobody.

Part II coming soon.
526 · Sep 2014
There But Not There
Brycical Sep 2014
I see you standing in the shower
though you’re not there.
Your mind bends the air around me
as I feel your Aphrodite fingers on my spine.
But I’m some five hundred ancient miles away…

We can talk without a phone
or internet.
But that doesn’t mean
I don’t enjoy being chocolate croissant spoiled
in your presence, even if it’s digital.
But our heart-conversations
change my soul,
like boiling mercury
oozing light from my veins.
Our minds and hearts
converse over dawn cloud kingdoms
occasionally checking our infinite labyrinth basement
that doubles as a wine cellar.
Sometimes,
our conversations don't even take place in this century.

I suspect we make scientists
scratch their heads
with our psychedelic time machine babble.
526 · Jan 2012
Meditation
Brycical Jan 2012
Breathing, the heart slows…
my body releases me.
My mind now travels.
Brycical Oct 2011
Don't let the man steal all your hope of time and space.
#truth #forever #changes #us
517 · May 2014
What a Day.
Brycical May 2014
Chill out hi-jinx
watching time warping white squirrels.

An adventuresome day,
mostly cloudy and some rain,
but all in good fun.

Maybe not in this reality.

Nick Drake croons in the background
cool-down sunset evening.
Tea is imbibed.

As the day fades into midnight,
I think of artists.
517 · Jan 2013
Proof Game
Brycical Jan 2013
State a fact.

Then ask        if you can prove it.
Answer.
How?
Then ask        if you can prove that.
Answer.
How?
Then ask        if you can prove that.
Answer.
How?
Then ask        if you can prove that.

Repeat for three minutes
and see what happens.
516 · Jan 2013
Definitions; Fear
Brycical Jan 2013
An anxiety designed to prevent learning.
510 · Sep 2014
Forget to Laugh
Brycical Sep 2014
Some days,
I've forgotten to laugh.
My scowl says I'm being serious
while my mind loudly whispers
you      ****       head
                    you're          such a ****          up
            watch you die            alone
because
              you          can't              do   anything

and so forth
and everything feels like I'm swallowing
porcupine barbs.

But when I talk to myself and remember
the silly goofy cuckoo bonkers
madcap absurd world I'm living in
where people care more about the environment than each other
are still arguing over whose good book is the best book
seeking to live a life like Jay-Z instead of His Holiness
paying bukoos of shekels to guys to who hit and catch ***** instead of those who teach their kids
while remaining ignorant of the stuff they're eating
I can't help but laugh then!
i don't know.
510 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Color
Brycical Sep 2012
1) A common barrier of culture.
2) A combination of lights that have been defined, agreed upon, and sectioned before you were born.
3) Something long ago that was considered beautiful, novel and celebrated.
503 · Jun 2014
12:2221/06/2014
Brycical Jun 2014
The curves of our flesh
also collide when pen or
brush touches paper.
just capturing a moment in time.
500 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Perception
Brycical Sep 2012
1) See *Imagination
2) An agreed upon way on how to process & take in the world despite nobody agreeing to anything about it.


Read more in the Definitions series...
Here's Imagination;
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/235337/definitions-imagination/
492 · Apr 2012
Dear Phoenix,
Brycical Apr 2012
Despite the fact that we don't talk very often,
I still consider you one of my closest friends
& confidants.

Somehow,
you always give me the fire
from your wings
when I need light on my path.
Light, of course being a metaphor for advice.

You are the big sister
not genetically related to me,
and also younger.
You're one of the few people
I feel comfortable crying in front of,
and your wisdom reminds me
I still have much to learn.

My gratitude extends beyond
comprehension of reason.

          I only wish, we could have
                at least kissed once
                    in this lifetime.
Your learned student,
and continuous friend,
~Bryce
490 · Apr 2012
Dear Joel A Doetsch,
Brycical Apr 2012
read anything
by Ron Padgett,
the poet.

Except the books he's written
that aren't poetry.
You'll thank me later,
peace and laughter,
~The Bryce Post
486 · Feb 2015
Yellow Truth
Brycical Feb 2015
Over the phone like smiles I'd just
plan, had it all mapped, all these people
run. You made me at this party
no one about looked happy.
Wanted to ruin and on the surface
I know I've seen you India.
They asked about disguised
at the paper cause a chineses
story due, also
everyone was a spench detective.
But I was the
only truth, the yellow
looks
you were good you
before the sun eye
nobody knew where
your mom and dad manager
didn't want to.

So I let Texan
the real world
kept up hope to
hear from you that
the
floor
no one
saw.
more experimenting.

In case you're curious, feel free to ask...
Brycical Aug 2013
It seems like this place has a certain pull, it's bringing people here. What's attracting so many?

*Because they can hear the silence
473 · Jun 2012
backwash
Brycical Jun 2012
Sometime's,
there's a little backwash
in your cup.*

You don't have to drink it.

Some do
and that's ok.

Some may even want
to drink your backwash.

Don't let them.

Backwash
is unavoidable
but
you make the choice
to drink it
or not.
*you are the cup
Brycical Jun 2014
The gray sky opens,
pumpkin yellow & strained peach hues faintly illuminate the air,
trumpeting forth the hazy, drained sun.

I know how the sun feels.

A flock of seagulls yip
around this park--
a few half-asleep morning people **** on their ciggys
in drab dark clothes
as their bubbly & bright eyed four legged companions trot around.

Not sure what I'm  looking for this morning,
or what words can best describe the tattered tapestry
of what's inside me right now.

I just came out for some serenity.
Brycical Oct 2011
I have seen night and day
simultaneously

The tears of a woman in the window
are merely dreams

The sound of scientists discussing human emotion
ripple in my plastic cup of water

In an instant,
friends shift positions--
in the blink of an eye.

My brain is humming
my words are slow...
a yawn emits--
like an electric car
traveling into my subconscious.
449 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Darkness
Brycical Sep 2012
Both the opposite
and absence of light.
446 · Jan 2013
It just makes sense
Brycical Jan 2013
to be peaceful and not wage war
instead of fighting everyone
for limited blood oil
use unlimited resources like the sun

It just makes sense
when we work together
there's a lot more we can get done
to be present and listen
is the start of real conversation

It just makes sense
to talk & toss things out
cause all we know for sure
is that we walk here now

It just makes sense
to dissolve fear & love
into one cause that's what we are
from start to end
444 · Jan 2015
Forgotten Cause
Brycical Jan 2015
Must run-don't stop, keep on going, fast
through towns & woods, o'er mountaintops of snow,
let the gracious wind push me forward, past
friends and animals, keep going wind, go!
Don't look behind, pace me like water flows
about the creek, where people drink, just let
people forget me poco a poco*
I'll fade away, like a gray silhouette
shadow dancing a calm, graceful minuet.
I wish I could stay & explain my ways,
but I can't, must press on. So please don't fret,
just forget me like a bad matinee.
I've forgotten why I keep going on,
But that's the way life is, I am the pawn.
*poco a poco is a musical term meaning "little by little"

Found this Spenserian sonnet I wrote in either junior or senior year of high school, which was 10 or 11 years ago.
438 · May 2012
My writing process.
Brycical May 2012
Words surround me,
some beckon for attention.
Once I gaze upon the loudest,
I’m overcome—
suddenly I AM that word,
briefly, inking itself to paper,
occasionally wrapping on the laptop
in an attempt to live a little bit longer
in the lexicon of time.
437 · Nov 2014
moving through
Brycical Nov 2014
inside me
there is a door
rotating colors.

it opens
once I'm quiet.
my tacit breath smiles.

dimensions
merge together;
like a submerged view

of the sun.
vagary spirit;
feeling umbuntu.
437 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Imagination
Brycical Sep 2012
1) See either Truth or Lies
2) See Creative
3) Seeing.
Here's another poem from the Definitions series:
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/definitions-crazy/
433 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Culture
Brycical Sep 2012
1) Deciding our boundaries & barriers
2) A forgotten word that used to mean art.
425 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Lables
Brycical Sep 2012
When the vast majority
of a population decides
to define something.
414 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Facts
Brycical Sep 2012
A collection of truths, agreed upon
by the vast majority of people
before you were born.
407 · May 2015
Heart Blossom
Brycical May 2015
Oh ‪rose‬,
gentle ‪flower‬ spirit-
in these moments
i imbibe our singularity,
for I feel your delicate petals
blossoming from my ‪third-eye‬,
roots wrapped betwixt my ‪‎heart‬-
your scent whispering ‪Rumi‬
as I ‪dance‬ with you
in this delirious ‎springtime‬ tango
I cry out
"oh magnificent beings,
rejoice!
For I have found ‪us‬!
We're all together
in this moment!"

But the rose simply giggles coyly,
her dance continues
as if this was a secret she knew
all along.
rose love life happy spring flowers nature dance
395 · May 2015
Mutual Mistakes
Brycical May 2015
I said something
I thought could be.

She listened.
388 · Dec 2012
Definitions; Addiction
Brycical Dec 2012
A conscious choice we transform
into a subconscious impulse.
387 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Definitions
Brycical Sep 2012
1) Deciding the order
of all words.
2) See *facts
373 · Apr 2014
With Her.
Brycical Apr 2014
We breathe together--
heartbeats conjure symphonies
Dusk sky shines for us.
361 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Learning
Brycical Sep 2012
Choosing what to remember as fact
over long periods of time.
358 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Light
Brycical Sep 2012
Both the absence and opposite
of darkness.
354 · Apr 2012
Top words (Stars)
Brycical Apr 2012
Just like time,
people don't know--

World(s) away
eyes face sky,
(the) body want(s)
(to) feel life.
349 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Words
Brycical Sep 2012
The most common barrier
of culture.
331 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Idea
Brycical Sep 2012
A decision when
to contain one's imagination.
321 · Apr 2014
Untitled
Brycical Apr 2014
brain no work
forcing myself to write something
maybe it will be
and then....
but how....
not now......
prototype
golf clubs make the best swoosh.
dead
299 · Sep 2012
Definitions; Love
294 · Apr 2014
With her. I am
Brycical Apr 2014
infinite beauty.
Technically, she's everywhere.
Must have good vision.
;)

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